Picker



Aug. 3l, 1937. Q BRAHS 2,091,302

PICKER Filed June 25, 1936 gaa-,ge ,Bra/115;,

ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 31, 1937 PATENT OFFICE PICKER George Brahs,

Application June 25,

3 Claims.

.This invention contemplates a novel construction of `pickers for looms,and particularly pickers ofthe class which slide in the loom shuttlebox, the principal object being to produce a picker which shall havesuperior resistance to wear and tear and especially that incident to itsimpact with the shuttle and which may also be manufacturedat a minimumof cost. The picker according toy my invention is characterized by aband at that end thereof which impinges against the shuttle and whichband embraces and is fast to terminals of the body of the picker, orthat portion thereof which has the aperture for reception of the pickerstick.

In the drawing,

Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are a side elevation, end elevation and plan,respectively, of the improved picker;

Figs. 4 and 5 are plans of the strip material from which the body andband are respectively formed;

Figs. 6 and 'l are a side and an end elevation of another form of thepicker; and

Fig. 8 is a plan of still another form thereof.

Referring, first, to Figs. 1 to 5: A strip I of substantially the shapeof that shown in Fig. 4 is used to form the body of the picker, to wit,with its ends reduced in width by equal-depth cut-outs Ia so as to formtongues 2. This strip in the present example exists in two plies, one

to form the outer and the other the inner layer of the body; the outerlayer 3 is preferably of rawhide and the inner layer 4 of leather, therawhide of the outer layer, being hard and stiff,

imparting strength and durability to the picker and the leather of theinner layer, being softer, avoiding chang of the picker stick. Suchstrip exists bent into the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3,

thus forming the picker body. That is to say, at points both sides ofand near the middle of the strip it is bent to give it a bifurcatedform, the rawhide ply being at the outside, and its terminal portionsare bent short of the tongues and toward each other and then so as toleave the tongues projecting generally lengthwise and away from theclosed end of the loop thus formed, leaving an aperture 5 for receptionof the picker stick. Thus the picker body has an acting or shuttleengaging portion (formed by the terminals of the layers 3 and 4, with alayer I0 to be referred to-if present) which forms a stub or projectionleaving the apertured part of the body with an endwise facing shoulder:r surrounding the stub at its base.

For the band a strip 6 having the shape shown Hawthorne, N. J.

1936, Serial No. 87,236

in Fig. 5, or with reduced ends or tongues l, may be used, such materialbeing preferably rawhide.

This band is made to embrace said stub of the body with its own tonguesdepending and it is made fast to said body abutting the shouldersthereof formed at :I: by rivets 8 penetrating it and the body tongues,its own tongues being seu cured together by rivets 9. Preferably, thereis introduced between the body tongues a layer I0, as of leather, toreceive directly the impact of the shuttle point an-d this may be formedwith a depending extension IIla. to lie between the band tongues I, asshown. The depending band tongues, with such extension of layer I0, ifpresent, form the usual lug which travels in the bottom slot of theshuttle box.

This lug may be omitted, as in Figs. 6 and 7. Here the body of thepicker is the same as already described, but the band II is withoutreduced ends, its ends being beveled and lapped an-d held by the rivetsI2.

In Fig. 8 two strips are used to form the picker body, each being heretwo-ply, as one ply I3 of rawhide and the other I4 of leather. Eachterminal of each strip is to be understood as reduced to form a tonguethe same as in Fig. 4, and its terminals are bent off short of thetongues first in the same direction and then so as to extend in oppositedirections. When these two lengths are assembled as shown (here withlayers I5, as of leather between their tongues), o1' so that theirconcavities are presented to each other, the aperture I6 for the pickerstick will be provided. At I1 are rawhide bands which embrace saidtongues, being riveted thereto at I8, and which may be either of theform shown in Figs. 1 to 3 or that shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

Wherever there is face to face contact between the parts of the pickersuch parts: may be cemented together, as especially those portions ofthe plies 3 and 4 which extend around the aperture.

Since the picker is of the class which slides in the shuttle-box, or isnot affixed to` the pickerstick, the bottom and side surfaces of itsrelatively long body, if not of the entire picker, should each conformto a single plane; in other words, the band should not project beyondany such surface (except, of course, where its lug depends to enter theslot in the bottom of the box). To make it possible toaccomplish thisobject without thinning and hence weakening the terminals of the body Ibend such terminals inwardly, as explained, and I also provide thecutouts suc-h as la.

According to my construction the acting or shuttle-impact end of thepicker is laminated, with the ends of the laminae presented at the endof the picker, and those laminae which are formed by the body of th-epicker are held together by the band. If the relatively middle laminaeare of leather and the outer laminae, being formed by the outer plies ofthe body and the side portions of the band, are rawhide then the pickerwill impart a somewhat desirably cushioned blow to the shuttle and theacting end of the picker will be far more sturdy than a picker of theusual form, or having its acting end formed substantially the same asthe right hand end of the picker shown in Fig. 3, pickers of the latterclass being known to be subject to disruption at their acting ends as anincident of the indenting thereof by the shuttle point.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

l. In a loom picker, the combination of an elongated body having apicker-stick-receiving aperture closed at one end of the body, theportions of the body between which is said aperture being formed oflongitudinally extending strip material and having terminals at theother end of the body which are bent toward each other and then bent toextend in a direction away from the first-named end, and a bandembracing and fast to the portions of said terminals which thus extend.

2. In a loom picker, the combination of an elongated body having apicker-stick-receiving aperture closed at one end of the body, a stub atthe other end of the body of less cross-sectional area than theapertured part of the body and a shoulder surrounding the stub at itsbase and facing in the same direction as the stub projects, the portionsof the body between which is the aperture being formed of longitudinallyextending strip material and having terminals included in the stub, anda band embracing and fast to said stub.

3. In a loom-picker, the combination of an elongated body having apicker-stick-receiving aperture closed at one end of the body, theportions of the body between which is said aperture being formed oflongitudinally extended strip material and having terminals at the otherend of said body which are of less Width than the remainder of saidportions, said terminals being bent toward each other and then bent toextend in a direction away from the rst-named end, and a band embracingand fast to said terminals.

GEORGE BRAHS.

